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Mat Kasper

Starving Artist

About Me

I'm 27 years old. Grew up in Rutherford, NJ. Live in Baltimore, MD with my German Shepherd, Miko. I draw on my walls because it's my house. I am the only white guy on my block and I like it that way...hopefully the neighborhood won't be gentrified too soon. My older brother lives in Bayonne, NJ and works in finance. I teach 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade special education in Baltimore City. I like to stay up late and mess around in my studio. I don't consider myself awake until my 2nd cup of coffee. I don't have cable bacause I hate comcast, though I do have high-speed internet. I spend my summers driving to Colorado to build sets for a high school for "at risk teens". I can't wait for the day when my house will fetch as much as the ones in Fedearl Hill. Sometimes the drug dealers on my block piss me off and I march up and down the street with my K9 off leash just to get their attention...it works!

My Interests

Art (photo, oil painting, drawing, sculpture, etc). Dog Training, beer, teaching, houses, music.

I'd like to meet:

People who say what they think, when they think it, but also know when they're crossing the line and need to shut-up. Good looking people!!! I don't have any ugly firends.

Music:

Zeppelin, Floyd, Stones, The Dead, Jazz, Fusion, Folk, Swing, Classical...and the list goes on.

Movies:

Most recent movies include, but are not limited to...Deadwood (the HBO series), Little Ms. Sunshine, Must Love Dogs, Everything is Illuminated, The Notebook, Serendipidity, The Natural, For Love of the Game, The Sting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Anchor Man, Nepeoleon Dynamite. Some favorite classics include: Caddy Shack, One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs...(more to come).

Television:

If I do watch TV, however, I'm probably watiching The Daily Show, The Chapell Show, Monster House, Monster Garrage, American Chopper, The Simpsons, South Park, the History Channel, or the Discovery Channel.

Books:

Let's see...I just finished The Great Gatsby (for the second time), Catcher and the Rye (for the second time), I'm half way through Atlas Schrugged, and I'm always caught with a copy of the Norton Anthology of Poetry. Though this might be a turn off to many people, I love Charles Bukowski.

Heroes:

Jack Kerouak, Albert Einstein, James Thorpe (professor at UMD).

My Blog

The Oscars

So all 3,000+ people that went to the Oscars received a gift baskets worth over $100,000. Just think if each person there donated 10% of their gift basket to a good cause...like me. That would be awes...
Posted by Mat Kasper on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST